Afghanistan

Naveed Noormal is a former Afghan diplomat and commentator, and the Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood chairs the House of Commons defence select committee.

The Afghan president has condemned the hasty withdrawal of US forces from his country for the intensified violence, as advancing Taliban fighters continue to seize ground. Elite Afghan commando units have now been deployed to Helmand, where the Taliban is battling to take control of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah. Aid workers there have described…

Boris Johnson has insisted that Britain is not abandoning its commitment to Afghanistan, while announcing that most British troops have already left the country.

We spoke to Farzana Kochai, a member of the Afghan parliament and asked her now that the Western Forces are gone, do you feel safe?  

Last night under the cover of darkness, most of the last remaining US and Nato forces left Bagram airbase in Afghanistan.

President Biden is meeting his Afghan counterpart Ashraf Ghani tomorrow in the White House with a promise of millions of dollars of humanitarian aid and billions more in security assistance.

Gunmen in Afghanistan have killed at least 10 people and wounded 16 others in an attack on the world’s largest mine clearing charity, the Halo Trust. We spoke to the chief executive officer of the Halo Trust, former British Army major general James Cowan.

It’s an illegal trade in human organs which preys on people so desperate for money they’re willing to take the risk.

What’s changed in Afghanistan after years of international involvement? Or rather, why does it feel like nothing’s changed?

Hundreds of Afghans who worked for the British military, mostly as interpreters, are to be allowed to settle in the UK, along with their families.

Afghan government forces are struggling to repel hundreds of daily Taliban attacks, and the spectre of a return to all out civil war now looms over the country. 

The horror of this month’s bomb attack on a girls’ school in Kabul is still being felt across Afghanistan.

Afghan officials say 85 people have died after the weekend’s bomb attack targeting schoolgirls in the Afghan capital Kabul, which left more than a hundred others injured.

We speak to Zarifa Ghafari, one of Afghanistan’s first female mayors, and Professor Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, from the University of Pittsburgh, who’s a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council as the US prepares to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, after two decades of conflict

President Biden has begun setting out his plans to withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan by September 11 this year. He will declare that “it’s time to end America’s longest war”.